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Michele Hutchison

Portrait of translator Michele Hutchinson
Photo © Maaike Koning, 2016
Contributor

Michele Hutchison

Michele Hutchison was born in the UK and has lived in Amsterdam since 2004. She was educated at UEA, Cambridge, and Lyon universities. She translates literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, and children’s books. Recent translations include works by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Raoul Deleo, Octavie Wolters, Gerda Blees, and Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, with whom she shared the 2020 International Booker Prize for The Discomfort of Evening. She is also co-author of the successful parenting book The Happiest Kids in the World

Articles by Michele Hutchison

Family in a tunnel
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Because of a Woman: Two Poems
By Babeth Fonchie Fotchind
Dutch poet Babeth Fonchie Fotchind remembers the women in her family and evokes her family's immigration from Cameroon to the Netherlands in these two poems.
Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison
Shadows in a dark room
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Ancestors: Two Poems
By Alfred Schaffer
Dutch poet Alfred Schaffer remembers his parents and evokes his Aruban ancestors in these two poems.
Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison
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A flowering wisteria branch
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Black and White: Three Poems
By Nisrine Mbarki
In these three poems, Nisrine Mbarki contemplates her parents' life as immigrants in the Netherlands and their tumultuous relationship.
Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison
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First Read—From “Roxy”
By Esther Gerritsen
In Esther Gerritsen's Roxy, translated by Michele Hutchison and out this week with World Editions, a young woman named Roxy struggles to move on after her husband is killed in a car crash along…
Translated by Michele Hutchison
What the Happiest Kids in the World Are Reading
By Michele Hutchison
Translator Michele Hutchison, co-author (with Rina Mae Acosta) of The Happiest Kids in the World: How Dutch Parents Help their Kids by Doing Less, explores the relationship between happiness and the books…
On Translating Jeroen Janssen
By Michele Hutchison
Michele Hutchison’s translation of an excerpt of Jeroen Janssen’s Abadaringi appears in the July 2017 issue: Divided Countries. Last year WWB asked me to edit a feature on Flemish literature.When…
from Abadaringi
By Jeroen Janssen
Those are things you mustn't ask questions about. Some people get sad.
Translated by Michele Hutchison
“Her Entire Existence Was an Emergency”: Human Relationships in Flemish Literature
By Michele Hutchison
Flemish literature at its best is linguistically pyrotechnic, daring, and original.
What You’ve Given Up Hoping for Counts Twice as Much, She’d Discovered
By Griet Op de Beeck
In general Kathleen didn’t look at the contents of toilet bowls, but in this case it didn’t take much to notice the colossus.
Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison
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Forty-four Years Later
By Michaël Olbrechts
I'm going to take you to the interbellum period, to 1936.
Translated by Michele Hutchison
Craving
By Esther Gerritsen
“You’re not likely to live a long time with something like this.”
Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison
from “Comfort”
By Ronald Giphart
In previous centuries practically everybody got a regular and considerable dose of mind expansion because practically everybody ate rye bread.
Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison